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Hi Lito, Dragonfly,

Thanks for your help.

The damaged disk showed two partitions.
/dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb5

The new disk only have 1 partition
/dev/sdc1

How do I type the ddrescue command? Is it like this?

ddrescue -n /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb5 /dev/sdc1 rescued.log

Sorry again. I'm a newbie when it comes ...

Hi Lito,

Sorry for being so dumb.

I tried the ddrescue without using the minipartion since the target disk is new out of the box. But got this error instead. Should I go ahead and do a 'force' overwrite as suggested?

THanks a lot.

Hi Lito,

Quick question. The new drive is brand new, out of the box and have not been used before. Should I still use the minipartition to wipe everything or it is ok to to do the cloning withouth using the minipartition?

Thanks a lot. I really appreciate it.

Hi guys,

I tried using Clonezilla. It was easy to use but unfortunately, I have this error. See screenshot below. Any suggestions guys?

Thanks so much again. And sorry to be such a pain. These technical stuff are too alien to me.

THanks again.

Hi guys,

Before I start doing things, can I confirm the following? If I were to follow Antonio Diaz's ddrescue instructions as below, what should I replace the old_disk and new_disk name? Is the same as device name?

the from the screen shot, my device name are:

Damaged ExtHDD:
/dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb5 ...

Thanks for that, James! As u have noticed, I'm 'technologically-challanged'.
I have run the fdisk -l command and got the folowing result (see attached screenshot).

Disk identifier : 0xebbf2e28 = laptop harddisk
Disk identifier : 0x0007279b = the external harddisk that cannot be accessed (the ...

Any suggestion guys? What if I do a clone using Windows? Would it work? Any good utilities software out there?

Hi,

I'm not a computer expert and this is the first time I use the Lunix screen. I followed the steps in http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/Damaged_Hard_Disk and reboot from Knoppix CD.
Then, I launched the terminal screen and type in sudo -s

then, i type in command lshw and fdisk as listed on the ...

Hi,

I'm in deep trouble now. I have not been using this External HDD for a couple of months and when I tried to access it a couple of days ago it gives be this error. You need to format the disk in drive G: before you can use it. 2012-08-17_05h34_58.png
I tried to access the drive using Dos and ...